Janet Evershed was the daughter of the Mayor of York, a successful and well-regarded mercer. But Janet’s life didn't follow the pattern for a well brought-up girl. She became a young widow running her own business in London; the mistress of the charismatic king and an exile in the Low Countries with her life entwined with the Princes in the Tower.
To Anne Neville, the third son of the ambitious Duke of York, later King Richard III, is a hero, and the key to her understanding of great events happening around her. Anne is a pawn in the dangerous games of intrigue that she struggles to understand. But her love for Richard culminates in great happiness and the last Plantagenet reign in England.